The judges have weighed in, and our community has voted! Go to the AWS Chatbot Challenge gallery to congratulate the winners and check out all of the awesome submissions. Don't forget to join AWS on Twitch at 3PM PT, 6PM ET today to discuss the winning submissions!

Even though the competition is over, you don't have to stop coding. Update your portfolio to inform your followers about new projects and get feedback from fellow hackers.

*drum roll* Ready to talk about the winners of the Chatbot Challenge? Join us on Twitch for a Live Coding session with AWS evangelists Randall Hunt & Tara Walker, where they'll be diving into the winning chatbots!

We've released a new script to help you export your bot definition files, and it's available here. Reminder: you'll still need to provide a way to access your bot for judging and testing, including a link to your repo hosting the bot code, and all deployment files and testing instructions needed for testing your bot. (The Github or BitBucket code repository may be public or private. If the repository is private, share access with testing@devpost.com)

Thanks!

Questions?

We're here to help. If you have any questions about the hackathon, post on the discussion forum or email…

The deadline is around the corner on July 18th and we know you’re hard at work. Remember, you are required to submit the following items:

1. A demo video that clearly shows your bot functioning on its intended platform. 2. Share your code repository publicly or privately through GitHub or BitBucket with testing@devpost.com. 3. Access to a working bot. 4. Testing instructions with anything we need to know to test your bot. 5. Text description should include a brief explanation of what the bot Application does and what makes it unique. 6. A completed submission form on Devpost.

Submissions to the AWS Chatbot Challenge are due before July 18, 2017 at 5pm PDT! Remember to review the submission requirements on our hackathon page and make sure you have included all the required elements. After the competition closes, our judges will review each entry and select the winners! Although it is unlikely, we may reach out to you if we determine that we need more information regarding your submission during the judging period.

Slack and AWS join forces live on Twitch.TV/AWS today at 4PM ET to code a chatbot using Amazon Lex and AWS Lambda!

We’ll be building a Lex-powered serverless chatbot that lets users grab descriptions of upcoming Twitch episodes and then vote on which one should be next. We’ll cover authorization, operations, and persistence using AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB (as well as third-party authorization through Twitch, Slack, or another provider). Today's stream can also be a great place to get ideas or questions answered if you are participating in the [AWS Chatbot Challenge.](https://aws.amazon.com/events/chatbot-challenge/)

In this tech talk, we will introduce Amazon Lex and walk through use cases for employee assistance, DevOps and, and internal help desks, where Amazon Lex's automation engine creates the potential to reduce costs, improve service quality, and create new ways to access corporate information.

When: June 05 | 9:00 AM - 9:40 AM PT | 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM ET

Learning Objectives:• Learn about applying conversational interfaces in applications through Amazon Lex• Learn about popular use cases for Amazon…

Looking to dive deeper into serverless computing? AWS Lambda can be used as a core part of Amazon Lex chatbots, but it can also be used to build serverless applications for a variety of use cases. Join our upcoming free tech talk to learn more about using our Serverless Application Model framework.

Amazon Lex offers built-in integrations with Slack, Twilio, Marketo, Salesforce, Quickbooks, Microsoft Dynamics, Zendesk, and Hubspot. But, you can also integrate with any other application by combining the Lex API and AWS API Gateway to extend your chatbots into virtually any use case with minimal effort. This session will show you how. The design pattern shown will be interesting to folks who want to build a pre-processing layer in front of Lex or want to route messages to multiple specialized bots.
When: May 15 | 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM ET
Learning Objectives: • Learn how…

Amazon Lex offers built-in integrations with Slack, Twilio, Marketo, Salesforce, Quickbooks, Microsoft Dynamics, Zendesk, and Hubspot. But, you can also integrate with any other application by combining the Amazon Lex API and Amazon API Gateway to extend your chatbots into virtually any use case with minimal effort. This session will show you how. The design pattern shown will be interesting to folks who want to build a pre-processing layer in front of Lex or want to route messages to multiple specialized bots.

Need help with AWS Lambda for your chatbot? We have two upcoming online tech talks on AWS Lambda and serverless computing. Register for these free tech talks to learn more about serverless computing.

Building Serverless Web Applications

When: May 22 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT | 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM ET

What if you could build a web application that could support true web-scale traffic without having to ever provision or manage a single server? In this session, you will learn how to build a serverless website that scales automatically using services like AWS Lambda, Amazon API…

Looking for help with getting started on your first chatbot using Amazon Lex and AWS Lambda? Join us for an online tech talk on May 8 to learn how to get started with Lex! Register for the webinar here.

Conversational interfaces through text with applications like Slack, and through voice with platforms like Amazon Alexa, are rapidly becoming mainstream. Amazon Lex enables you to quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language conversational chatbots with the same deep learning technologies that…